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Newfoundland & Labrador has Kenny Sharpe committed its investment in a pro mained constant. THE MUSE vincial tuition freeze. Contrary to national trends seen "Through our unprecedented in across the country, student debt in he latest provincial budget vestments to improve student aid Newfoundland & Labrador has de for Newfoundland and and make post-secondary educa creased on average, from $30,000 T Labrador was delivered this tion more affordable, Newfound per student in 1998, to approxi week with Premiere Danny Wil land and Labrador has become a mately $25,000 per student cur liams and his conservatives spend national leader in post-secondary rently. ing more the $7-billion, with near accessibility," said finance minis "In a year with a deficit budget ly $1 .5-billion of that going into ter Tom Marshall. and in a year where we are seeing education, making it the largest "We have frozen tuition fees at our brothers and sisters across the budget in this province's history. Memorial University and College country getting hit with tuition fee Of the funding allocated to edu of the North Atlantic in each of increases and funding cuts to uni cation $88-million will go towards our last six budgets. With an ad versities and colleges, we are very student residences. $18-million ditional investment this year of happy to see the money that was will help construct a delayed 500 $5-million at Memorial University put forward," said Daniel Smith. room residence at Memorial's St. and $!-million at the College, we Smith, the Newfoundland and John's campus and a 200 room res will extend the tuition fee freeze Labrador chairperson for the CFS, idence in Corner Brook. $7.5-mil yet again." says students from across the lion will be allocated for additional Currently students at Memorial country should turn to the student upgrades to existing student dorms. University pay a general tuition of movement here and find motiva A total of $3.2-million is allo about $250 per course, with sister tion to implement change in other cated for deferred maintenance up College of the North Atlantic stu provmces. grades to existing residences, and dents paying less. "It comes down to the fact that $11.5-million for the new College According to a response issued we are I 00 per cent united in of the North Atlantic in Labrador by the Newfoundland and Labra Newfoundland & Labrador. Every West. Another new building for dor branch of the Canadian Fed public post-secondary student is a academics will be constructed at eration of Students (CFS), because member of the federation. We all Memorial's Sir Wilfred Grenfell in of the work of successive govern go in under the same banner, we Comer Brook at an announced cost ments, enrollment, and expansion all stand up and fight together, and of $13-million. for all colleges and the universities that is what it is all about." In addition, the government of in the province has increased or re-

,. « RDC RESEARCH & tH~VJElOP"MtUr«'T CORPORAT!ON NEWf{'H.HUH... U>tO AND LA!UlAOOR w w w. them use on I in e. c a April 1, 2010 NEWS 3 -Spotting sea monsters Creatures of the deep caught in net; carcass later sinks

Kenny Sharpe THE MUSE

ormally when they wash up they have no bones, no N cartilage, and they reek. The latest unidentified sea monster to surface the seas surrounding this province is being considered by a team of biologists here at Memo rial. Longtime Lance Cove fisher man, John Marsh, was called to help his boat mates to free what they thought to be a dead whale caught in one of their nets. In an interview with The Tel egram, Marsh explains that when he and his fellow fishing friends brought the net up to free the mass, it was unlike anything he had ever seen. The dead creature's skin was, as he called it, "smooth as glass" and was colors of "pretty green and blue." While the carcass of the suspect ed sea monster sank to the ocean floor before a photo and sample of it could be retrieved, Marsh did provide an explanation of the crea ture from which an artist's rendi tion was made. Steven Carr, a professor of bi ology at Memorial, said the prov ince's history and coastline is lit Photo: Kenny Sharpe tered with sightings and stories of peculiar sea creatures, both dead Memorial Biologist Steven Carr holds an artist's rendition of the Lance Cove sea monster upside down to better view its and alive. remaining bone structure. The artist drew the representation based on the description given by the Lance Cove fisherman. While the true identity of the lat est Nessie may never be revealed, saying we have heard of this be tested and identified as various that, in the end, most have an ex a DNA chain, at which point the Carr offers some of his knowledge fore. In the absence of any DNA wha~es, sharks, or other known sea planation. chain would be entered into an in and experience about the unidenti and in the absence of any photo animals. "Most things that wash up and ternational database for identifica fied creature. graphs, the particular critter that Most often, it's after the bones, are thought to be sea monsters tion. "The one at Lance Cove - we the finder saw is, I would say, a muscles, and cartilage have long do have an explanation based on With no sample and just a de don't have a lot of material. There basking shark," said Carr. since rotted in the corrosive ocean something that we already know scription, the story of the Lance are no photos, no samples ... just There have been several dead leaving behind blubbery remains. about," said Carr. Cove sea monster may forever re a statement from buddy," he said. creatures thought to be deep-sea Carr says it's human nature for Should there be a sample to ana main a mystery, adding to the long "On this one the identification is monsters that have washed ashore the mind to create images of shy lyze, Carr says Memorial has the list of creatures swimming in the simply listening to the story and in this province only later to be and rarely seen sea monsters but equipment on campus to obtain deep.

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Kenny Sharpe and teenage pregnancies. cam- THE MUSE Blair Trainor is studying child everal college students from and yolllth care at Eastern College. St. John's are about to em He is the campaign leader of the Sbark on a five-day campaign event and will be one of the nine to increase awareness about the is who will spend five days exposed sue of youth homelessness in New to the elements in April. foundland and Labrador. Trainor believes that while the Sleep Out 120 is a five-day, 120- number of homeless youth and per hour long campaign beginning on sons will never be eliminated from April 5. Nine students from East society, it can be lessened, and that em College in St. John's will spend early prevention of homelessness five nights sleeping and living on is the key. the streets, networking with the He attributes the number of familiar faces around the city who homeless youth in the province to call the streets their home, and the rapid change in social stand gathering their stories. While or ards among them. ganizers say the state of youth care "In grade seven now, there is in the province is in good standing, crystal meth. It is not just weed, more needs to be done about emer cigarettes, and alcohol. Young peo gency shelters. ple are being introduced to drugs According to the campaign re at an earlier age, and they are be lease, there are roughly 1,200 in coming addicted at an earlier age," dividuals who are considered to be Trainor said. "If they have a fore homeless in St. John's alone, with seen mental illness, and they get paign since last summer. raise $7,000, strangers can also dress the issue of homelessness one in seven shelter users across hooked on a drug, then they never When Trainor and his peers live make donations in marked cans and that others will lend a helping Canada being under the age of 18. get that mental illness dealt with." on the streets this April, they will that campaign participants will hand in the future. The release states that homeless Trainor works at Emmanuel only be permitted to have a sleep have with them. youth suffer more from lack of House in St. John's, a community ing bag, pillow, water bottle, tooth According to Trainor, 100 per For more information about educational opportunities, devel house installed in 1979 to provide brush, toothpaste, soap, a single cent of all financial donations will Sleep Out 120 or to make a dona opmental delays, and incomplete women and men with counselling change of clothes, and a journal. go directly to the campaign's main tion, check them out on Facebook immunizations than their peers in services pertaining to their social Trainor says that food and drinks charity, Choices for Youth, a youth or e-mail sleepout120@gmaiL stable housing situations. In addi and economic situations. He says will only be available to partici community center in St. John's. com. tion, they also deal with a greater the idea for Sleep Out 120 came pants of the program through direct Trainor hopes that his campaign number of sexually transmitted in from similar initiatives across the donation from strangers. will make other students recognize fections, mental health problems, country. He's been working on the With a target monetary goal to the importance of the need to ad- Grad funding reinstated Provincial budget helps fellowship funding, lessens stress for Golfman

Chelsea Howard ment announced a $2-million in THE MUSE crease in funding for graduate stu dent fellowships. unding for graduate studies Daniel Smith, Newfoundland's at Memorial did not look chairperson of the Canadian Feder Fpromising as of two weeks ation of Students (CFS), responded ago, with a projected shortfall of to the announcement. $2-million. "The graduate students at Me It was expected that prospective morial University are the engines graduate students at MUN would of research for the province and bear the brunt of this budgetary we need to make sure that we are crisis. However, this week's pro not getting left behind in the dust vincial budget will spare them that in terms of research around the CriSIS. country." "We are doing this in order to "To see that money put in place make sure that we don't get into a was very welcomed," said Smith. deeper deficit, and that all depart The proposed increase is an in ments and academic programs can vestment in the research interests manage their budgets more effi of graduate students, according to a ciently in the future," said Noreen report released regarding the budg Golfman, dean of Graduate Stud etary provisions. ies at Memorial, weeks before the "[The investment] will not only Photo: Donald Lachlan budget was announced. enable Memorial University of tion," stated the report. fits graduate students bring to Me ing year and help us plan to attract '~We know that this change is Newfoundland to recruit and re Golfman says she is pleased with morial, to the growth of research, the best students to come study and temporary." tain the best students from around the budget as well. and the province as a whole." live here." According to the release of the the world, but will also make Me "We are very happy that the "This money will give us much latest provincial budget dated morial a key destination for qual Government of Newfoundland has more flexibility in going forward March 29, the provincial govern- ity post-secondary graduate educa- recognized the need and the bene- with fellowship offers in the com-

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' J www. t bemuse o o I i o e. c a April 1. 2010 EDITORIAL 5 Homeopathy in denial

lternative medicines are the probability of these diluted To Benveniste's credit, his ex claims of dilute solutions - or wa on the rise as an increas homeopathic medicines contain periment withstood the scrutiny ter - being useful as fighters of dis A ing number of patients try ing even a single molecule of ac it takes to be published in one of ease is ridiculous. to fill the void left by the failure of tive substance was essentially zero. the most prestigious journals in the You can put your faith where Western medicine by taking a more The concentration is equivalent to world. The problem is, water mol you like, but don't be swayed by holistic approach to their health. putting a pinch of your favourite ecules rearrange in picoseconds - testimonials and rhetoric. Science But while exploring alternatives spice in the Atlantic. that's 1,000 times faster than a bil will never give us all the answers, is in our best interests, claims that The fact that most of these reme lionth of a second. If water has a but in specific, testable cases it sure homeopathic treatments have with dies appear to be nothing but water memory it's of the extremely short goes a long way. stood the tests of science are false. has not discouraged homeopathy term variety. If you believe in science then Towards the end of the 18th advocates. Immunologist Jacques The bigger problem is that Ben you can't turn your back on it century, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann Benveniste explained the effects of veniste's results have never been when a theory you're fond of is proposed what is one of the funda homeopathic medicines in a 1988 repeated by other researchers. So suddenly debunked; we must learn mental principles of homeopathic paper and suggested that it was the the only explanation left is the pla to dismiss that which has been dis treatments: Like cures like. In structure of water itself that was cebo effect: The well studied phe proved. That's how science works: other words, a very small amount the active ingredient in homeo nomenon that inert substances can Throw an idea out there and the of a similar substance to that which pathic cures. According to him, improve patients' health because of rest of the world will try to prove causes illness can cure the original water remembered what had been the high expectations placed on the you wrong. It's a tough business, ailment. In this method, the treat dissolved in it because its altered treatment itself. but there it is. ment is prescribed as a very dilute structure remained locked in place Many legitimate treatments fall solution of the active ingredient. long after the active ingredient was under the broad umbrella of al Jonathan Comeau Photo: Michael Cote Scientists quickly realized that diluted. ternative medicine, but specific Letter to the Editor MUN DMC? It's like crap, and that's the way it is MUN OXFAM can't dig a latrine, but they know people who do

arl Pereira's concerns in he could ask campaign organizers ter world. the March 25 Muse about to share their experience and en It also suggests that opportunists K MUN's participation in hance his organization's opera can't be found elsewhere - they the World's Longest Toilet Queue tions. can - or that organizations with are an opportunity for dialogue, re Mr. Pereira suggests that the such individuals are inherently un flection, and comment. Queue helped nobody - I certainly trustworthy - they're not. The Queue coincided with didn't dig a latrine, because I don't The second is downright foolish: World Water Day and sought to know how. I do know that money Justice is the concern of all, and raise awareness about and demand exists to hire people who do: Just activism is about putting power appropriate solutions for the 2.6 1.4% of annual global military into the hands of citizens. If I am billion individuals without access spending would put us on track to a lawyer, a fashion photographer, to proper sanitation. The UN's reaching our water and sanitation or a plumber, am I not allowed to o the operators of the Com- . centre. In terms of operational fi Millennium Development Goals goals. fight for a better world? mons, I would like to make nances I am insulted to hear that address these issues, but modestly: Nobody shoots the shit on shit Of the future, Antonio Gramsci T you aware of the fact the finance would serve as an impedi they aim to halve, not eliminate, (it's a cultural thing), but 5000 suggested that we must reject the Memorial University student body ment to our education. In any case, the number of people without ac children a day die of water-borne historical determinism of oppres is grossly underserved by the Dig if financing this centre is such an cess to these necessities by 2015. illness so maybe we should. The sion and embt:,ace the "objective ital Media Centre. Presently there issue, could that not be the co-op They're also not going well. In Queue is part of a larger campaign possibility" of a world without suf are 17000 undergraduates and ap job of a business student? 2006 the UN admitted that, among to create positive change; it is my fering. This world is "objective" proximately 2000 plus graduate Besides, do we not already pay other issues, sanitation goals in belief that without citizens' voices, because it can and will be realized students at this university. Yet, the for the service in one of the many Africa won't be met until 2076 - rich nations will continue to main with concrete actions. This hope Digital Media Centre is open only charges that we pay as students? meanwhile condemning millions tain a silence closely resembling is what motivates individuals to 9:00am to 5:00pm during the week We already pay a $40/semester of adults and children to death, in stupidity. work in solidarity with the world's and till 7:00 pm on weekends. athletic fee for The Works and dignity and injustice. I have been privileged, over five oppressed; sometimes we must re The best responses that the staff the Aquarena, and these facili Mr. Pereira takes issue with the years of campus social justice, to member also to work in solidarity can supply when asked about the ties have performed remarkably fact that the Queue didn't champi work with many passionate, tal with each other. hours, is either that the usage lev well in terms of student satisfac on local water issues. That's okay. ented individuals. Some are now in els are too low to justify expend tion. Would the DMC not benefit Social justice isn't about saving professional schools. All are trust Christopher Mong ing the hours or that we don't have from a fee per student per semes the world' but about making it a ed comrades. Mr. Pereira seems to Director of Global Citizenship, enough staff. In each of these in ter, even at $5.00? It would inject better place, one issue at a time. To suggest one of two things: either MUN-Oxfam stances there is a simple solution: $10,000 each semester in funds quote the commercial, "nobody's my comrades were opportunistic ... we have business and engineering towards purchasing new software, good at everything, but everyone's "candy stripers" or that a commit students seeking co-ops. Could more computers for the Commons, good at something": events like ment to social justice must be ab some of those additional positions an upgraded and stronger wireless Sustainability Days and the RAD solute. not be filled by the students who service, and extended hours. HOC Youth Conference facilitate The first is an insult to the in desperately need job experience? We are Memorial University and and acknowledge the power of col dividuals who have made MUN a Regardless of what the usage we deserve better, especially a bet laboration. I applaud Mr. Pereira Fair Trade campus, banned bottled numbers are, I doubt that there is ter accessible and equipped DMC for drawing attention to local wa water and sweatshop labour; to any reliable method of monitoring and Commons. ter issues but suggest a cooperative those who sacrifice much in their how many people really use the approach: Rather than being ~ndig everyday lives and brave abuse DMC. 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all, sex is a topic near and dear to just about everyone (outside of clergy circles, obvsies). I took the job with one goal in Ken Macleod mind: It's 2Ql(j and some people are stiJJ living in a sexual dark age. I wanted to change that, if even to Ifyou could change into a a small degree. guy or girl for one day, what I'd always been critical of my would you do? hen I first agreed to the forebears at the Muse. Whether it sex column gig I had was disagreeing with their views or W a few trepid thoughts. just generally being a cwmudgeon, First, I'd be signing my name to 1 was determined to outdo them in Photo: James Learie 20-plus articles about sex. What every way. would that mean for my Google Writing about sex is effing dif could I say that Dan Savage hadn't on lesbian sex. It's not that I don't footprint? ficult though. Coming up with a said better (and bitchier)? consider it an important topic; I Then there was the obvious: The scintillating new topic week after At any rate, I expressed my just know next to nothing about it inevitable awkwardness of having week while remaining upbeat and views on this most beloved of top and it would have been a massive my parents and relatives reading hilarious enough to keep people ics, got some positive feedback, hack job. my musings and accrued wisdom reading was at the forefront of my stirred up some witch-hunts, and in In any case, it's been a magnifi on sex. mind. so doing, gained a bunch of respect cent pleasure being the on-campus Katie Beehin My biggest hesitation, however, But as any budding sexologist for the brave souls who sexed up sex guru for the past year. What Second-year Business was the risk of giving bad advice, knows, there are few stones left un the paper before me. have you got to lose this decade? '~s a guy I'd just like to or incomplete information. After turned in the garden of sex. What I do regret not doing an article Go forth and be sexy. get laid" Humanising healthcare in the US It was tough, but Obama's delivering

biJJ, the majority of Americans will soon have access to health insur ance. It was a hard ride, but now it's over. Adam Noel Many Republicans who opposed Third-year Business Obama's health care bill are mem "I'd just go about ordinary everyday life and see what bers of the Tea Party movement, an the differences are" American populist movement that is ostensibly opposed to excessive government spending and fiscal mismanagement. According to a Quinnipiac Uni versity poll, 65 per cent of self identified Tea Party protesters have a high school diploma and some college. While this is slightly high er than the educational attainment levels of the United States popu lace generally, it leaves a large pro Melissa Atkinson portion of their membership with First-year Biology "I'd probably see how many no college education. girls I can pick up" So, many of the people who opposed health care reform are uneducated, and probably low income: In short, the sort of peo ple who would be at risk for being Photo: White House press release uninsured. So, you wonder - how Undiotornatic could they have been persuaded to Relations oppose health care? It's a relatively simple answer: They were convinced by pundits that the health care reform bills would set up "death panels" that Sebastien Despres t seems like the United States would give government bureau Ph.D. Candidate healthcare soap opera is finally crats the power to choose who in Anthropology I coming to an end. Congress lives and dies. As they didn't have "I would fear the conse has passed the Democrat spon the education necessary to evaluate quences. Yes that's what I would do." sored healthcare bills, the Patient such claims critically, they were Protection Act, and the Health recruited to a political cause that Care Reconciliation Act. President was fundamentally against their - Obama has signed the former into own interests. And You're Moving Out! law while the latter awaits signa As university students, most of ture. us don't need to worry about this The bills, which promise to and we know (or should know) We have an affordable) safe provide health insurance for most when a claim is patently false. This and secure solution for your Americans and prevent insurance underscores the importance of be belongings while you're away. companies from denying health coming politically involved and insurance coverage on the basis of helping to dispel myths and false pre-existing medical conditions, hoods in public discourse. Brittany Tara Ward seem ready to become law. Obama won the battle for health Second-year English It appears Obama has won the care, but it was much closer than "I'd just like to pial a sport I • day. He managed to pass the bill it should have been. The onus is normally woufdn t have the that many said was dead in the partially on students to make sure physical strength to play." water. In spite of numerous at attempts at progress are not threat tempts by Republicans to stop the ened in the future. CALL: 709·727-6821 . ' ' . .. t ' • \ • .. . . \ - - - . ------. - - . ------· ------.. - - - - - . . .. ------8 FEATURE Aprill.2010 www.themuseo!ll i ne.ca

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v1ews of Newfoundland. I've seen it from the Alberta perspec tive where 1 was a student and from an Ontario perspective when l was a prof at the University of Waterloo,'' he said. "'Put it this way, the stereotypical view is a lit tle bit like the bumpkin - it's real ly not all that different from what Snook, created by Gander

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people from the prairies. H that exaggerates Ne1wtcmntala1 Warkentin says that be can sym for humour. pathize with these stereotypical ing a link to Snook's site views to some extent, growing up ... u*~~....· local talent, Myers Maggie lee a self-proclaimed "'farm kid" from that this type of hu Andrew Meade Unionville, Ontario Manitoba. creates an invisible barrier a~n.- r Fredericton, "Instead of driving a boat, I ,----·-J feel they cannot critique New Brunswick drive a tractor," quipped Wark ~...,·ovu•~~ issues without looking entin. poor sport.'' When asked the first thing that comes to mind wl1en he hears the And long may your word Newfoundland, Warkentin big jib draw immediately answered, "fish." ''I think that may be the case Despite Myers' disclaimer, with other people as well.'' said .----·-.. members of the group do Warkentin. "They may think of .,...• . un.;rg in focusing on the nPIYA-I [Newfoundlandersl as fishennan stereotypes attributed to or fisher-people who do not neces sarily need a great deal of educa tion. In my case, I happen to love fishing and I'm an avid fisherman. So when [ say fish, I think of it · in a different way than the rest of them." Is it mainlanders or Newfound landers who are responsible for perpetuating these stereotypes? Warkentin believes that that both groups are contributors. ''I think a lot of it is driven by central Canada and people living Nick Devereaux there," said Warkentin. '"1 also Hilary Paige Smith Toronto, Ontario think that a lot of it is generated by St. Thomas, Newfoundland itself." New Brunswick Warkentin mentions that come dians such as Rick Mercer, Shaun Majumder, and Mary Walsh can associate themselves more closely to Newfoundland, further perpetu ating stereotypes. J ·'r think a Jot of central Cana dians don't get the idea that these Newfoundlanders are outsmart ing them and that these stereo types are being turned around [by Newfoundland comics] and used against them." For Myers, there is no debate that the word Newfie carries with it negative.... connotations. "We may think that stereotypes don't do any harm or don't go be yond tasteless jokes, but the larger impact of stereotyping is far more extensive and far more harmfuL Stereotypes influence the way peopJe see other people, how

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MUN nursing student battles challenges in her personal life and at school

Nathan Downey According to Karen Webber, as ing is reduction of poverty. THE MUSE sociate director of MUN's under Humby and her daughter live graduate nursing program, there's with her aunt because she can't At any given time there are close about a 16 per cent attrition rate find decent, affordable housing. to 400 students enrolled at MUN's after the first year. She says some Her parents are unable to help her School of Nursing - both in the of the students who drop out aren't financially or even to help take care four-year program and the two ready for the heavy workload, and of her daughter because of illness. year fast track program. Students some discover nursing isn't for "I'm trying to become a nurse are subjected to a rigorous curricu them. not only because I love it, but [be lum that consists of core nursing Humby cites rising debt levels cause] it's a way for me to pro subjects, practical skills· labs, and and personal struggles as the rea vide a stable future for me and my clinical placements. son she might not be able to con daughter and get out of this hole Paula Humby's third year of tinue with the program. called poverty." study might be the end of the road .. It's sad, because I'm an A stu Second-year student Erin Wight for her. A single mother, Humby dent and I get really good grades," says many nursing students work has difficulty juggling her nursing she said. "I'm good at what I do, but as personal care attendants in order studies and the challenges in her because of my life circumstances, I to support themselves through their personal life. can't attain this degree because I degree. "I was sick last year and my can't handle the set course load." "They're flexible for the most posed to begin. She told her pro ing graduates, according to the mother was sick. I had to take a Dr. Judith McFetridge-Durdle, part; they work my schedule fessor that she'd be unable to come NLNU's website. semester off which means I was a director of MUN's nursing school, around my studies," she said. earlier because she needed the time Pat Coish-Snow, one of Eastern year behind," Humby said. "This agrees that the nursing curriculum However, Wight says she can't to drop her daughter off at daycare. Health's chief operating officers, semester I'm battling illness again does involve a very challenging imagine supporting herself and a "She told me that that's my prob told the CBC that Eastern Health and it doesn't look like I can han academic schedule. child while in nursing school. lem and I would have to be there would be ramping up its recruit dle the current load ... I'll have to "What helps them through this "It's tough for me and I live by at [the re-scheduled time] or it'll ment efforts at MUN's school of take another year off." is that there's a lot of camarade myself. The actual time you have reflect on my evaluation," Humby nursmg. The nursing program follows a rie; they work together in small to put in ... I don't know how you'd said. "There's nurses needed every set track, establishing and progres groups," she said. do it." She says her professor added where," Humby said. "Ifsomeone's sively building upon a foundation One of the fundamentals of the Humby spoke to the Muse about that she had kids as well and faced having a tough time accomplishing of basic science education and nursing program is health pro an incident in January that severely the same challenges. the goals of a heavy program, there nursing fundamentals. If a student motion. Within this, students are shook her confidence in the pro "I have no money, no job, no should be a restructuring of the fails or is unable to complete a pre taught to advocate for vulnerable gram. One of her professors re husband ... how to you expect me progratn to accommodate people requisite course, they have to wait populations and those on the mar scheduled the start time for a clini to get here magically at [the new who face additional challenges." a year until that course is offered gins of society. They're also taught cal course at the Health Sciences time?] If I was working I'd have again in order to advance. that one of the keys to healthy liv- Centre the day before it was sup- the ability to buy a car and there fore transportation." Humby feels that this incident highlighted hypocrisy within the program because students are taught to advocate for the margin - alized, but the school itself does nothing for its students in difficult circumstances. "The way the structure of the system is now .. .I'm increasing my debt every semester I wait. I can't wait any longer," she said. "I have to get out there and start making money; I can't just keep piling up the debt." According to the Newfound land and Labrador Nurses' Union (NLNU), the province is currently faced with a nursing shortage. Newfoundland and Labrador cur rently lose~ 30-40 per cent of nurs-

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Alex Barrett and Drew Stephens dish on the season and the importance of leadership

Drew Stephens Photo: Mardon Erbland

2009-10 season was a slow one. with being the oldest." "We have always had the young Stephens concurs, adding that est teams by far, and with only two he learned a lot about leadership, other teams in our conference it's commitment, and time manage really tough to get the ball rolling," ment. said third-year Barrett. "We are After completing their stint progressing as a young team and as Sea-Hawks, both Barrett and we've shown we can compete with Stephens plan on continuing with teams. We just need to get over the volleyball, and coaching is in both hurdle and start winning. Some of of their futures. the pieces are there we just can't The teammates also agree that seem to fit them together." their team shares a strong bond. "Losing many games in my "The nucleus of our team has first year, I had to play out of my been constant for a while now, normal position which was a big we've got the same few guys which adjustment especially at the CIS have always been there, even be [Canadian Interuniversity Sport] fore university," Barrett explained. level," he said. "Our team as a Stephens and Barrett recom whole is going in a great direction. mend trying the sport to anyone Alex Barrett Photo.· Mardon Erbland We have shown at many times dur interested. ing the past two seasons that we "Be prepared, as it is a massive out junior high and high school. home in Sackville, Nova Scotia, can compete, we just need to work commitment, and it is a lot of hard .. SAMANTHA SMITH He has represented Newfoundland and is a member of various provin on consistency." work, but anyone can do it if they THE MUSE at the national level since 2006, cial teams. Leadership is a common thread organize their time wisely," ad The men's volleyball team is including the Canada Games last The Sea-Hawks finished their between both men, especially for vised Stephens. building a competitive nucleus of year. season with a record 1-17 over Barrett. "Being the oldest player "''I'd definitely say that hard work talent. Drew Stephens, who wears weekend of February 20 and 21 on the team comes with obvious pays off," added Barrett. "If you Number 12 Alex Barrett, a St. number 2, also played on the New at the Atlantic University Sport responsibility: Keeping every have your mind set on something John's native, is the oldest member foundland and Labrador team at (AUS) League tournament in Fre one in line, making sure things you've got to go for it- life's too of the men's team and has played the Canada Games. He has played dericton, New Brunswick. Both are done right, helping teammates short." volleyball for nine years, through- his past six years of volleyball at Barrett and Stephens agree that the with off-court issues all comes

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GINA GtLL entry into Canada is a metaphor. THE MUSE "Newfoundland was already an One of Canada's greatest living old soul, joining a country whose poets delivered the annual Pratt character many have described as Lecture on Saturday, March 27 at adolescent," said McKay. Memorial's Inco Innovation Cen McKay related his theory to non tre. poets, using the "cake and eat it Don McKay is the author of 12 too" idiom. His mother used this books of poetry, including the Gov infamous saying on her son when ernor General's Award-winning he asked why he couldn't read The Night Field (1991) and Another Lone Ranger during a classical pi Gravity (2000). McKay, a native ano performance as a child. of Ontario, currently resides in His response was, "that's not St. John's and is MUN's Writer in cake; it's spinach." This sentiment Residence with the Faculty of Arts. is still true today. "I'm sick of be His book of poetic philosophy, ing either/or'd." Vis a Vis: Fieldnotes On Poetry & McKay refers to what he labels Wilderness, may best outline his as in-betweenity -"no compro Pratt Lecture, titled "The Speaker's mise, an inclusion of both." Meta Chair: Fieldnotes on Betweenity." phors can be both true and false McKay discussed wilderness, met simultaneously. aphor, and how metaphor works Grant McConnell's painting, within our language to help us re "Speaker's Chair", inspired his late to something that cannot be speech. It displays a picture of a related. seat on a ferry crossing pulled by McKay said when a metaphor horses. Metaphors, like taking a works well, we can imagine some ferry, involve the same type of thing we had never seen as possi investment, according to McKay. ble before. It allows us to "express "Metaphors involve risk, letting go the inexpressible," while allowing of self-anchorage and plan sense." "language to exceed itself." McKay His search for meaning takes used a geologist's quotation dis us somewhere between the sci played at the Johnson Geo Centre ences and humanities. He wonders in which Pangaea is compared to whether both can exist without the Harry Hibbs' accordion abilities, other or thrive on each other. making Earth science theory appli "Mystery versus mysticism, why cable to the layman. "Takes some hasn't it been bridged?" thing from deep time to something immediate," said McKay. McKay also stated that Newfoundland's Photo: Submitted

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' , I I I { • I Illustration: Vivien Leung and Diego Palaez Gaetz, The Link w w w. t h e m use o n I i n e . c a April 1. 201 0 A RI & CU LT U RE 13 awa Trio brings Newfoundland's music to the rest of the world of our shows, we'll buy a bunch of I mean we as in this province. The our own CDs, just to get the ball Junos are here, and we have people rolling (laughs). People tend to from here playing at the Junos in comment on how we come across their own hometown. as honest and genuine; it seems AD: I think that's one of the like there's nothing put on there, coolest things this time around. which we're delighted [to hear] but When the Junos happened here last don't really read it that way, be time, people were blown away and cause that's the way we are. surprised by how rich the scene We get up on stage, and the only was, how diverse it was, and how difference from us sitting around good the artists were here. But this . ' talking to you is that we happen to time around, I think they know . \ be holding instruments. that. ! ~ I r 1 I TM: Younger musicians are re T M: What do you tell a kid who I : f defining Newfoundland music. Do loves to play accordion but is dis you agree? couraged by Top 40 radio? · ·I 4 AD: Tom Power of CBC's Deep GH: Always be true to what you ~: ~{ Roots made a really good observa want to play. t w ...... tion that the traditional music of AD: Change the radio station. If Newfoundland and Labrador, as · that kid wants to learn how to play far as the interest goes, never really the accordion, then that kid already went away; it's always been here. likes the accordion. Don't get dis I think it's more of the public couraged by the Top 40 stuff; seek interest that tends to go in waves. out the people who are playing the Fortunately, there's a big wave music that you're developing an that's happening now, and there are interest in, and the people who will a lot of incredibly talented younger support and encourage and nurture people that are taking up the conch. that interest. RYAN BELBIN Photo: Mark Bennett Geraldine Hollett: I disagree! Still, every genre has its pn1s and THE MUSE I do think that there is more tal cons. You don't have to hate anoth St. John's folk trio the Once had Phil Churchill, Geraldine Hol and we came across "the once." I ent around right now. I don't know er type of music in order to enjoy a a busy winter. They impressed au lett, and Andrew Dale found some read the definition: "in a minute," what it is, but it feels more spec certain type of music. diences with their beautiful har time to relax and have a chat with and then the penny dropped; we tacular. The Once will be performing monies and blends of traditional the Muse about being a 21 sr_century all use that expression. It sounded T M: What does it mean to you at the Delta on April 14 as part Newfoundland instruments, per folk band from Newfoundland. good, and it was something that's for the Junos to come back to St. of Ruckus on the Edge. They will forming at the Vancouver 2010 Ol The Muse: Where does the name very rooted in this place. John's? also be playing at the Martini Bar ympics, the Paralympics, the Folk for the band come from? TM: It's a tough gig selling CDs PC: The Junos mean something on April 16 as part of JunoFest, Alliance conference in Memphis, Phil Churchill: We were sug these days, so performance obvi in most of the Western, English and will be doing a provincial Arts and the East Coast Music Awards gesting a bunch of different names, ous! y has to be pretty crucial to a speaking world, so if you're in and Culture Centre tour in the fall. in Sydney, Nova Scotia, arriving just firing out different ideas, then band. What makes a performance volved in it then there's that sense More information is available at home just in time for the 2010 Juno we started flipping through the Dic by the Once? of pride that maybe we're known www.theonce .ca. Awards. tionary of Newfoundland English Andrew Dale: Often after a lot too. I don't mean we as in the Once, Exquisitely satisfying crime drama views prison as a trade school Oscar nominee presents the Tony Montana of the Obama era with astonishingly quiet ferocity. To endure the primitive system of MUN prison, Malik embeds himself with Cinema Series the tough Corsican gang that runs the show. The film follows this MI!.DRED young man's indoctrination into Plf_f!_ CE that violent society, as he observes its own laws and tactics, learns Nominated and largely expected from watching, observing, inter to have won the Best Foreign Film nalizing. Oscar this year, the upcoming Malik must pass several tests, all screening at MUN Cinema is aptly hair-raisingly suspenseful, in or titled for the eve of Good Friday: der to keep moving, to keep alive. The Prophet/ Un Prophete. Years pass, and we witness the This is one of those long and slow and inevitable hardening of powerful films that only a lonely a human being into something for European could make. It's a film midably cold and calculating. that through its vivid storytelling Director Jacques Audiard takes says so much about the human us on a dark and exhilarating jour condition in the first decade of the ney into the heart of darkness. His millennium. It is a primer on glo work has been compared to Brian balization. De Palma's in Scarface (1983). At the centre of the story of a Also Francis Ford Coppola's and young man named Malik, a nai've AI Pacino 's characterization of and inexperienced French-Arab Michael CorJeone in The Godfa who finds himself in a nameless ther ( 1972) is replicated in Au prison. Why he is there is almost diard 's tale of crime and family. irrelevant to the fact that he enters Adding depth and complexity as a relatively shy and innocent to the drama is the fact of Malik's young man and then gains an edu ethnic identity. As an Arab, he is an falls to those who can claim a track well worth the trip. This is a bril The Prophet plays Thursday, cation that could only be directed othered male, already marginalized record of assumed authority. liant exercise in crafty storytelling, April 1 at Empire Studio 12 in the to hardened criminals. The inno because of his history. The film is rated R for strong and in character development. It's Avalon Mall. Tickets are $9 for stu cent learns fast and hard just how Prison life replicates the same violence, sexual content, nudity, a truly unforgettable experience. dents and seniors, $10 regular ad brutal the world can be, and what tribal social behaviours as the language, and drug material, and mission. Tickets go on sale at 6:00 is necessary to survive in it. world on the outside. People are just so that you know, you are in pm, show time is 7:00pm.

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Mary J. Blige is be yourself. Polluting her vo It's not all the blues with Blige. a piano and drums to get down and Stronger With Each Tear cals with processed production is One of pop music's resonant dirty on the kitchen sink. "All up in Matriarch Records having Shuzo Kishida, a Michelin themes is rebirth and redemption. your fridge, and the next ~ill be in R&B/Soul three star chef, cook dinner in ami It's perfectly expressed on the ex your stove, now let a girl cook in crowave. cellent Ne-Yo produced jam, "I your kitchen, when it all gets hot, Her previous hit "Just Fine" Feel Good," where she and her everything drops." made every other diva wannabe on friends feel like they rule the world You don't have to shut the burn the radio sound like a poodle be when they have a night out. "Don't ers down with this song. Food, love, ing tortured. I like Blige because try to bring me down, it's not like sex and money are ..the themes of Guruchathram unlike other divas who present a you could, I feel too damn good," the track that will have you grind Ledchumanan fake veneer of perfection, she is she sings over mid-tempo club ing in your apron. The track, "l Can not afraid to reveal her self-doubt beat that sits under a soulful piano See In Colour", from the Precious What's a real soul singer gonna and be vulnerable. It's called soul rhythm section. soundtrack strips her voice raw on do in an Autotune world? If you're music for a reason -you need one On the bluesy track, "Kitchen'' a bluesy track that will break your ....- Mary J. Blige, all you have to do to sing it. she just has to use her vocals over heart and then fix it. ..

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RYAN BELBIN THE MUSE Forty years and sixteen studio albums after they first got together, Canadian hard rock legends April Wine are being inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Formed in Halifax in 1969, the band is one of the pioneers of Ca nadian rock music, arguably hav ing as much influence on the de velopment of this country's unique sound as Bachman-Turner Over drive, Rush, or Trooper. The cere mony will be part of the 2010 Juno Awards Gala, which will be held in St. John's on April J8. April Wine's music is defined by wailing guitars, mind-crunching power chords, and soaring arena rock ballads. The original line-up of Myles Goodwyn (vocals/gui tar), brothers David and Ritchie Henman (guitar and drums, respec tively), and Jimmy Henman (bass) released their self-titled debut in 1971 . On Record followed one year later, earning them their first Ca nadian number one hit, and an en try into the US Top 30 charts with the song, "You Could Have Been a Lady." By the time it came to Photo: Submitted recording the group's third album, Electric Jewels, Goodwyn was bum Chart for the same amount of extensive touring schedule. are classics relevant to Canadian Watch it on CTV and pay homage the last original band member left time. Melanie Barry, President and mustc. to the band who made the rest that standing. However, by 1982, with the re CEO of the Canadian Academy In a media release, Goodwyn followed possible. Some bands The following years brought a lease of Power Play, it seemed as of Recording Arts and Sciences was humbled by the accolade. "[0] crumble in time but some bands number of milestones for the band. though the momentum was dy (CARAS), is pleased with April n behalf of all April Wine mem grow with age. April Wine have Stand Back from 1975 became ing. The album, despite fair sales, Wine's recent recognition. "Their bers, past and present, a heartfelt not crumbled. their first double-platinum record, lacked the endurance of former induction to the Canadian Music thank you to CARAS," he said, while The Whole World~ Goin' albums. Two more albums - Ani Hall of Fame is exceptionally de calling the award "a tremendous Cra-:;y, released the following year, mal Grace and Walking Through serving, and highlights a long his honour." He will be present with went platinum by advance sales Fire - were released in the midst tory of musical accomplishments," Greenway to accept the award alone. Their rise to success was of mounting tensions within the she said. at Mile One Centre on April 18. mounting, and showing no signs group, and the obligatory farewell Despite a career defined by line of slowing down. Brian Greenway tour. up changes and mixed critical suc joined the ranks in 1977 for For Numerous solo projects fol cess ( 11 Juno nominations failed to ever For Now, adding an additional lowed the split, before April Wine produce a single win), April Wine guitarist to their arsenal. reconvened in 1992. Four studio have remained a staple of Cana After flirting with international albums were produced in the last dian music playlists. In addition acclaim on previous releases, First two decades, the most recent being to their studio releases, the band Glance in 1978 gave music fans Roughly Speaking in 2006. Good has 15 compilation discs, 7 live al more than just a glance of April wyn and Greenway remain in the bums, and 2 concert videos. Songs Wine. "Roller" shuffled around roster, with Breen LeBoeuf becom like "Sign of the Gypsy Queen," Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart ing the group's bassist in 2007 and "Enough is Enough," "Tonight is a for 11 weeks, while the album Blair Mackay joining as drummer Wonderful Time to Fall in Love," stayed on Billboard's Top 200 AI- last year. The group maintains an and "Just Between You and Me"

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IN AN INTIMATE Marine Institute Executive Director, Glenn Blackwood, Q&A presents Grade 12 student, Avineet Sekhon, with the Best in Fair Award at the Eastern Newfoundland Regional Science and Technology Fair.

SUNDAV APRIL 11 LucAs WHALEN HIGH SCHOOL to a crossbow paintballlauncher it 3PM CORRESONDANT shows the variety of creative and AT THE STORE Crossbow paintball launchers, inspired ideas from the up-and hydro-electricity, anxiety disor coming scientists at this year's fair. COME MEET HAWKSLEY AND POSE YOUR QUES'nONS ABOUT ders, and preventing germs were The idea behind each of the HIS SONGS, INSPIRATION AND MUSIC MAKING just some of the topics addressed at 140 projects had a unique story. this year's Eastern Newfoundland "I chose this project to [beat] my HOSTED BY SEAN PANTING (REPUBLIC OF DOYLE) Regional Science and Technol friend in a competition," said a stu ogy Fair. Over 200 students aged dent from Holy Heart High School. 12 to 18 were chosen to represent On Saturday, March 27, several their schools this past weekend at awards were handed out to students SPECIAL IN-STORE EVENT the Marine Institute to display their in wide-ranging categories. Top scientific abilities. honours for Best in Fair went to JUNO SATURDAY APRIL 17 The atmosphere at this year's· Avineet Sekhon, a grade 12 student CHECK OUR WEBSilE OR lWITTER AS WE ANNOUNCE MORE INFO fair was one of anticipation, but the at Holy Heart, for her project, The competition heated up as the event Great Weight Debate. She studied went on. Students from across a compo"und found in fruits and APRIL 17 IS ALSO Eastern Newfoundland hoped their vegetables called apigenin, which projects would be selected to par has the ability to reduce the risk of PtE COPt. STelltE .AY ticipate in the Canada Wide Sci developing type II diabetes. COOL LIMITED EDITION VINYL ON SALE ence Fair, which will commence The idea for her project came May 15 in Peterborough, ON. from the Shad Valley internship she Maybe it was because of all the completed at Memorial Univer awards up for grabs or simply the sity during the summer. Avineet's love of science, but everyone had project also earned a gold medal, their game faces on and were ready a Memorial University Department to battle once the judges hit the of Biology award, a Natural Sci floor. Over 70 judges from various ences and Engineering Research parts of the local scientific com Council of Canada award, and a munity were eager to see what the Women in Science and Engineer- .... bright young minds had to offer. ing award. "It has a possibility to improve Joining Avineet to represent the lives of people suffering with Newfoundland in the Canada Wide post-traumatic stress disorder ,&ompetition in May are Kathryn [PTSD]," said Zachary Quinlan Bowers from Villanova Junior and Andrew Lynch of Bishops Col High, Anna Gosine from MacDon lege who examined the effects of ald Drive Junior High, Timour Ig rapamycin on PTSD. amberdiev from Holy Heart High, Several other projects were re and Caroline Molloy and Lauren lated to the deadly outbreak ear Rolling from Bishops Coilege. When it comes to important lier this year of the H1Nl virus. causes. Carty Bigelowv just keeps going and When you compare these projects going and going. As a non-stop whirfwfnd of motiv~ spirit and energy. Carty brings a battary of passion. brains, and a seemingly boundless supply of energy to every project she touches. So as a ~ wbo can energize your team -whether as a peer counselor or Memorial .... Ambassador or volunteering with T1Je Muse - Carty cfoesn•t: simply get top marks, she gets a Triple A.

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